Concussions

“Dr. Cantu (clinical professor of neurosurgery at Boston University School of Medicine, co-director of the Neurological Sports Injury Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and senior advisor to the NFL's Head, Neck and Spine Committee) proposed the potential benefits of working with a chiropractor to relieve the secondary complaints from a concussion. Cervical nerve-root irritation producing headaches, as well as burning facial pain, reddening of the face and sympathetic nervous discharges, can be managed conservatively and shorten overlying symptoms that would have kept an athlete out of play.”

Concussions can occur in any sport, to any athlete orindividual on the field, during a practice or game

More than 50% of high school athletes withconcussions play despite their symptoms

Persons having had prior Concussions have a 2-5.8x’s higher risk of sustaininganother concussion and may have progressive longer recovery